{"id":4117,"date":"2012-10-23T08:33:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cinemastance.com\/?p=4117"},"modified":"2012-10-23T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:33:25","slug":"take-this-waltz-is-available-on-blu-raydvd-oct-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/?p=4117","title":{"rendered":"TAKE THIS WALTZ Available Blu-ray\/DVD Oct 23rd"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\u201cTake This Waltz\u201d is a sweet\/sour Romance movie directed by actor Sarah Polley. You may remember Miss Polley from such films as the Tarantino-lite \u201cGo\u201d or Zack Snyder\u2019s Zombies-on-meth retread of \u201cDawn of the Dead\u201d. The Canadian-born Polley has made a handful of small films and shows a deft hand at providing fly-on-the-wall intimacy. In \u201cWaltz\u201d we have a couple talking an almost indecipherable baby talk to each other. A group of \u201creal women\u201d taking a communal shower after a swim aerobics class. She has a gifted hand that allows you to live the story instead of just watch it.<\/p>\n

Problem with \u201cWaltz\u201d is that it focuses on a story that suffers from something I call \u201cHollywood Morality\u201d. These types of tales can feature people sleeping with their spouse\u2019s siblings or cheating with the teenage girl next door because, you know, that\u2019s human nature, right? Pretty much a \u201cHollywood Morality\u201d movie takes Woody Allen\u2019s real-life relationship decisions and presents them on-screen as acceptable.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m no teetotaler and I do not possess any books that I like to thump on weekly but these movies can be hard for me to care about. \u201cTake This Waltz\u201d focuses on listless Margot (Michelle Williams) who is married to the likable shmoo Lou (Seth Rogen) who is near-constantly cooking chicken for his never published, poultry-centric cookbook. It is not a loveless marriage, the two actually share many sweet moments and his extended family has embraced her as their own. She belongs with them.
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\nBut, across the street from Lou and Margot\u2019s apartment, there lives Daniel (Luke Kirby) who is a very good-looking artist type who has set his sex lasers on Margot. (Sorry about the \u201csex lasers\u201d thing. That\u2019s what I call \u201cintensely focusing your carnal attentions\u201d on someone but I feel it sounds better than it reads). Margot takes to the attention and the two seem like kindred spirits. She struggles with her wants and desires, back and forth, as we watch the romance blossom while her marriage crumbles.<\/p>\n

So here we have a romance movie about a romance that it is hard to get behind: A Anti-Romance movie. But Polley spends so much time with this relationship that is, in its core, wrong that it becomes frustrating. Ultimately the movies main theme- What is New gets Old eventually- gets hammered home but it makes for an almost pointless experience. Truly sexy stuff.<\/p>\n

Polley also wrote the film and there is a some very solid sexual material here that will excite. One scene involving Daniel narrating a fantasy encounter can insight blushing. Williams reaction with her gorgeous grin and mildly treamoring body drives it home.<\/p>\n

The performances are fine as Michelle Williams is her usual, low-key, self. Her Margot struggles and cries appropriately. Rogen does good work as the wronged husband and you can\u2019t help but feel for the guy. There is a tiny bit of desperation in his performance and he struggles with the serious moments. The real revelation here is Sarah Silverman who plays Lou\u2019s alcoholic sister, Geraldine. She is the voice of the film, a rough-edged Jiminy Cricket, who is the smartest one on the screen. I would have preferred a film about her. At least I can get behind the poor decisions made by a drunk.<\/p>\n

Special features:<\/p>\n

The making of: Take This Waltz;<\/p>\n

AXS TV: A Look at Take This Waltz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cTake This Waltz\u201d is a sweet\/sour Romance movie directed by actor Sarah Polley. You may remember Miss Polley from such films as the Tarantino-lite \u201cGo\u201d or Zack Snyder\u2019s Zombies-on-meth retread of \u201cDawn of the Dead\u201d. The Canadian-born Polley has made a handful of small films and shows a deft hand at providing fly-on-the-wall intimacy. In […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[13876,17668,17669,18073,19527],"class_list":["post-4117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dvdblu-ray-reviews","tag-michelle-williams","tag-sarah-polley","tag-sarah-silverman","tag-seth-rogen","tag-take-this-waltz"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemastance.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}